Organization Date Title Keywords
China Leadership Monitor 08.6.12 Economic Uncertainty Fuels Political Misgivings
Barry Naughton
Political uncertainty is inevitable as China prepares for this fall’s leadership transition. This year economic conditions are also unusually unpredictable. In particular, while China is undergoing an inevitable economic slowdown, few have a clear idea... 		Economic Slowdown
China Leadership Monitor 08.6.12 Bo Xilai and Reform: What Will Be the Impact of His Removal?
Joseph Fewsmith
The unexpected flight of Chongqing’s Public Security head to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu in February started an unexpected sequence of events that led to the removal of Bo Xilai, the princeling head of the Chongqing party committee, and the subsequent... 		Bo Xilai, Chinese Communist Party, 18th Party Congress
China Leadership Monitor 08.6.12 The Bo Xilai Affair in Central Leadership Politics
Alice L. Miller
From a procedural perspective, the removal of Bo Xilai from Chongqing and from the party Politburo resembles the 2006 purge of Shanghai party boss Chen Liangyu and the 1995 takedown of Beijing City party chief Chen Xitong. Bo’s removal in that respect... 		Bo Xilai, Corruption, Chinese Communist Party, 18th Party Congress
China Leadership Monitor 08.6.12 China’s Top Future Leaders to Watch
Cheng Li
The composition of the new Politburo that will take power in late 2012, including generational attributes and individual idiosyncratic characteristics, group dynamics, and the factional balance of power, will have profound implications for China’s... 		Politburo Standing Committee, Leadership Transition, 18th Party Congress, Chinese Communist Party
Human Rights Watch 07.31.12 Torture in the Name of Treatment
More than 350,000 people identified as drug users are held in compulsory drug "treatment" centers in China and Southeast Asia. Detainees are held without due process for periods of months or years and may be subjected to physical and sexual abuse,... 		Human Rights, Drug Treatment, Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao
International Crisis Group 07.24.12 Stirring Up the South China Sea (II) 
The South China Sea dispute between China and some of its South East Asian neighbours - Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei - has reached an impasse. Increasingly assertive positions among claimants have pushed regional tensions to new heights... 		South China Sea, Diplomacy, Nationalism, Vietnam, Philippines
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency 07.20.12 Trends in Global CO2 Emissions
Jos G.J. Olivier, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Jeroen A.H.W. Peters
Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, reached an all-time high in 2011. The authors of this report summarize and analyze trends in carbon dioxide emissions on a country-by-country basis, finding that China’s continued high... 		Greenhouse Gases, Air Quality, European Union
China Labor Watch 06.27.12 Beyond Foxconn: Deplorable Working Conditions Characterize Apple’s Entire Supply Chain
On June 14th, 2012 a Foxconn worker jumped to his death from his apartment building in Chengdu, marking the 18th reported worker suicide at Foxconn factories in China in just over two years. Many additional suicides may have gone unreported. But these... 		Labor, Apple, Working Conditions, Manufacturing
Human Rights Watch 06.26.12 Isolated in Yunnan
Since June 2011, an estimated 75,000 ethnic Kachin have hostilities between the Burmese army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Burma. Thousands of them have sought refuge in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, where the Chinese... 		Refugees, Burma, Human Rights, Yunnan
Committee of 100 06.25.12 U.S.-China Public Perceptions Opinion Survey 2012
The re-establishment of U.S.-China relations in 1971 marked a strategic step that ended China’s isolation and transformed the global balance of power. Since that historic milestone, the United States as an established superpower and China as an emerging... 		Surveys, U.S.-China Relations